since the year 1608, a little before the telescope was invented and applied to the heavens....It is stated that Cortes when he first visited lower California, found the weather so extremely warm that he called the country calida fornax (Latin for hot furnace), and these words have since been abbreviated into California....There are in the United States 694 public libraries, containing an aggregate of 2,201,623 volumes....A metrical version of the Psalms of David by the late Rev. Charles Wesley is about being published in England....The Rt. Hon. T. B. Macaulay M. P. has been elec. ted President of the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution in place of the late Professor Wilson....Prince Albert suggests that instead of the proposed Statue to himself, for the success of the Great Exhibition, Scholarships for proficiency in certain branches of art and science be established....The government have purchased Burlington House in London and its magnificent gardens for £140,000. They are shortly to be opened to the public for the purposes of art and science....Certain inscriptions which have been found on some cylinders recently discovered at the ruins of Babylon clear up several difficulties with regard to the reign of Belshazzar, and reconcile the sacred and profane chronology in some points where they appeared to be hopelessly at variance....Lawrence Oliphant, Esq. the present private Secretary to His Excellenзy the Earl of Elgin is the author of one or two interesting works of travel-one of which entitled "The Russian Shores of the Black Sea," has been recently re-printed in New York....The French Government has decided that a periodical, containing the reports and papers of literary and scientific societies, accounts of missions, etc, shall henceforth be published under the title of "Bulletin des Sociétés Savans."....Hugh Miller the distinguished geological writer has been presented with a piece of plate by a few friends as an expression of their approval of his editorship of the Edinburgh Witness....Several English and French Artists have accompanied the expedition to the East in order to sketch by pencil and photograph the scenes they may witness....Lamartine proposes to write a series of Turkish Tales which he intends should form a companion volume to the celebrated "Arabian Nights"....The waters of the Lake of Zurich have become so low that the remains of some Celtic architecture have been discovered, the previous existence of which was never suspected....The N. Y. Mercantile Library having been removed to its new home on the 8th inst. addresses were delivered on the occasion by the Governor of the State and other distinguished persons. The library contains nearly 50,000 Volumes....The Earl of Carlisle has been elected President of the Royal Society of Literature for the ensuing year....The annual meeting of the British Association is to be held, this year, at Liverpool-commencing on the 21st of September, and special pains have been taken to render it attractive and interesting. St. George's Hall—one of the finest buildings for public meetings in Europe-has been placed at the disposal of the Association....The Institut Canadien, of Quebec, is offering three medals valued at $60, each for the best French compositions on three specified subjects. The first is on "The Educational establishments, and literary and scientific institutions, of Canada, their history, their destiny, and their influence on French nationality:"-The second, "the euology of Lake Champlain ;" and the third, "the Commerce of Canada: what it has been; what it is; what it will be.”—The prizes are to be delivered at a public sitting of the Institut. HISTORY OF "UNCLE TOM'S CABIN." The history of this remarkable book is thus told by the Boston correspondent of the N. Y. Literary Gazette of the 1st inst: "An editor of a public journal wanted a tale for his columns; a lady was engaged to prepare one, which she did; that tale was published, and thrown by with the thousandand-one things that are read in newspapers and then forgotten. But there was, as it would seem, a 'divinity' 'shaping the end' of that newspaper story. Another lady, the wife of a publisher, remembered it, and it was much in her thoughts. She thought it ought to be made into a book, and she urged her husband to undertake its publication. He demurred, and did not wish to think of it; but after much importunity one evening, he promised that he would write to the authoress and ascertain her mind. And so, at a late hour of the night, and to redeem the pledge which he had somewhat incautiously made, he wrote his letter, which brought from the writer of the story the promise of an interview in a few days or weeks. The interview was had, the tale was to be published, and the writer to share in the profits of its sale. There was, however, little hope in regard to the enterprise, so little that the husband of the writer, when doing the business in his wife's behalf, embodied his expectations in words like these:-'If the profits of the work shall be sufficient to buy my wife a silk dress, that will do ;" and afterwards. 'If we can only realize enough from the sale of the book, to purchase a small cottage in which we may live, this is all I could ask; for we could then live upon my salary.' In due time, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' sees the light, and its name is borne on every wind. It is, in one way or another, brought to the mind of almost every man and woman in the nation. And there is also genius in these volumes. The characters, many of them, are very exquisitely drawn. The book is exciting; it makes the nerves twitch, and the tears flow, and the heart burn, and the tongue mutter hasty, and sometimes vindictive words. And therefore it is read. And so 'Uncle Tom' goes over the land, and across the sea, and becomes over all the broad area of freedom, the popular idol. And this has been the history of the Book, till three hundred and ten thousand copies have been sold in this country, and unknown thousands beyond the sea, and the fortunate writer has realized from the home sale of the work, the pretty sum of thirty thousand dollars, and from the sale abroad, we know not how many thousands more." IMPORTANT DISCOVERIES IN GALVANISM.-Professor Callan of St. Patrick's College, Maynooth, has recently made some valuable discoveries in Galvanism, in explaining which, he says:-"Soon after I had discovered the cast iron nitric acid battery, I commenced a series of experiments on the decomposition of water by the galvanic battery, with a view to obtain a steady and brilliant oxyhydrogen lime-light, such as might answer for lighthouses. In a paper on our large galvanic battery, dated April 6, 1848, and published in the London Philosophical Magazine of the following July, I stated that I got the lime-light by igniting the mixed gases as they were produced by the decomposition of water, and throwing the flame on lime.' Although I succeeded to a certain extent in obtaining the light which I sought, much still remained to be done. I found that the instruments previously used were unfit for my purpose, and was therefore obliged to devise and make several new ones. My experiments ultimately led to the following results :-First, a new apparatus for safely employing the mixed gases to produce the oxyhydrogen flame and limelight. Secondly, a new voltameter, to which a common jet may be screwed and the mixed gases inflamed as they issue from it, without the smallest risk of a dangerous explosion, and by which the full decomposing effect of a hundred, or of any number of celle arranged in one series, may be produced without exhausting the power of the battery more rapidly than if it contained only four cells. This voltameter is new in every respect; new in the material of the decomposing vessel, which is wrought iron, an inch thick, coated inside with an alloy of lead and tin, or of lead, tin, and antimony; new in the manner in which the decomposing plates are connected with the opposite ends of the battery, whilst the vessel remains air-tight; new in the material as well as the arrangement of these plates; new, finally, in the fluid through which the voltaic current is made to pass, in order to produce the mixed gases. I have found that with the common voltamater a battery of a hundred cast iron cells will not produce more than the 25th part, and that a battery of 500 cells will not produce the hundredth part of its full decomposing effect. The third result is a new negative element, cheaper, more durable, and one that may be made to act more powerfully, than the platinised silver used in Smee's battery. The fourth result is a new 'Means of protecting iron of every kind against the action of the weather, and of various corroding substances, so that iron, thus protected, will answer for roofing, cisterns, baths, gutters, window frames, telegraphic wires, for marine and various other purposes.' This is the title of the invention as set forth in the application for letters patent." L'ECOLE DES BEAUX ARTS IN PARIS.-The Ecole des Beaux Arts is the great public school of France, corresponding to the English Royal Academy, and from a report published in 1845, by Mr. Townsend, we learn that the instruction is gratis, admission being obtained by competitions in the months of March and September. Here the educational system is the same, in reference to elementary studies, as that in the schools of the private professors, the most eminent of whom, indeed, also occupy chairs in this institution, and are paid by the government. The general tendency of the arrangement is to promote a spirit of emulation and consequent industry, among the eleves- this being, in fact, the distinguishing feature in the training of youth throughout the French metropolis. The competitors for admission are generally five hundred, of which number perhaps one hundred succeedThe "admitted" are divided into two classes, of odd and even numbers, and the studies of these two classes are conducted week by week, alternately, after the Antique and the Life, in the two great amphitheatres devoted to the purpose. The model sits six consecutive days. The proportion of sculptors is about twenty in a hundred. The professors attend in rotation, from five to seven in the evening. During the studentship there is a monthly competition, the decisions being given every quarter. One silver and two bronze medals are distributed, for each month, the third class medal being worth no more than seven francs. The merits of the drawings, however, being rigidly scanned, much value is attached to success, particularly as the medallists are entitled to a choice of places, and to a prolonged right to academic study, while the non-medalists must contend again at the expiration of six months. In this Palais des Beaux Arts the very building itself inspires a consciousness of the respect willingly accorded to the avocation to which it is devoted. On everr side, incorporated with the edifice, are mementoes of the past, appealing either to the feeling of beauty or to reverence for the great predecessors in art. The chefs d'œuvre of Michael Angelo, in painting and sculpture, re-appear in the "chapel." The choicest riches of sculpture, from Greece, to the middle ages, and to the present day, are disposed through its superb saloons, and the very doors exhibit valuable relics of wood carving, the best representatives of “ornament” being constantly mingled with the specimens of higher art. Nor are its students left unnoticed in these testimones to worth. Besides the chambers, in which their first distinguished productions are displayed, some of their subsequent labors are mingled with the best in the saloons; and in the amphitheatre devoted to the prize-giving, the fine genius of Delaroche has assembled the artist chiefs of various epochs to witness, as it were, the triumph of the rising youth of France. On entering the amphi theatre, the semicircular wall, which extends itself in front of the spectator, and toward which ascend the rows of benches for the assembly, is seen expanding its painted surface to the extent of 80 feet in length and 24 feet in height. In the picture a simple colonnade appears to run partially round, forming, with equal portions of blue sky on the right and left, the background to a lengthened series of groups, the lines of whose composition intertwist with consummate skill. From the source of light, which is in the cupola above, certain gilded lines of construction pass down to unite themselves with those that form the framework of the picture, thus affording, in conjunction with the skill of the artist, a delusive effect which the peculiarity of the subject renders meritorious and charming. The result intended by the painter is immediately produced; the august presence into which he has been ushered at once forces itself on the consciousness of the spectator, who resigns himself to the influence of a fancy attended with so much gratification. The "Hemicycle" is a proud addition for Delaroche to a host of works which have been stamped with public applause throughout Europe; it is an admirable tribute to the fame of those great artists with whose renown future ages will cordially associate his own. It is said he received the order of the Minister of the Interior to paint the work, to consist of twenty-four figures, for which he was to receive the sum of three thousand pounds. He supplied a sketch in conformity with this agreement; it was approved of, and it was arranged that he should furnish the picture in a year. Subsequently, he so completely altered, or rather enlarged, his plan, that he introduced into the work not fewer than 75 figures, and in executing it he occupied not less than three years. Offered by the government a large pecuniary present on the completion of the "Hemicycle" he waived it for himself, on condition that it should be offered to increase the excellence of the engraving, which is just published under sanction of government. ERRATUM. In the Apportionment to the County of Perth published in the Journal for last month, for Elma read Ellice. NEW MAP OF CANADA. HE EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT having recently prepared a new liamentary divisions and corrections, the following copies have been ordered for the Schools in the Counties referred to: York, Ontario and Peel.... 350 copies. 55 Middlesex (reported by the County Clerk as purchased) 200 The size of the Maps is 3 feet by 2 feet 6 inches. Price 5s. 74d. per single copy, or 5s. for any quantity over fifty copies. It is also the intention of the Department to have this corrected Map of British America published in the National Series and in Johnston's Series, and of the same dimensions, in the course of the autumn. The price, size, and style, will be the same as are now the maps of either series. Parties are cautioned against purchasing any copies of the new Map of Canada recently published in New York, except those issued by this department, as an inferior and incorrect edition is in circulation, and for sale by agents. MAPS OF CANADA, GLOBES, & APPARATUS. OR SALE at the Depository in connection with the Education Office, Toronto: FOR PELTON'S PHYSICAL, OUTLINE MAPS, as follows:1. Political and Physical Map of Western Hemisphere...7 feet by 7 feet. 2. Political and Physical Map of Eastern Hemisphere...7 feet by 7 feet. 3. Map of the United States, British Provinces, Mexico, Central America, and the West India Islands.... .7 feet by 7 feet. 4. Map of Europe.. ..6 feet by 6 feet 10 inches. ...6 feet by 6 feet 8 inches. .....6 feet by 7 feet. 5. Map of Europe.. 6. Map of South America and Africa.. Price of the series with Key $20. These maps in connection with their other general features, present the Geological Formation of the World, its Oceanic Currents Atmospheric Changes, Isothermal Lines, Vertical Dimensions, Distribution of Rain, Electric, Magnetic, Volcanic, and Atmospheric Phenomena, &c., &c., in a manner so simple and beautiful as to be easily taught and comprehended. JOHNSTON'S Maps beautifuly engraved and colored, consisting of the two Hemispheres, Europe, Asia, and Africa, &c., 118. 10 each. CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY Maps. Size a 15s. each, world 17s. 6d.) CHAMBERS' series of Maps, 15s. each, (world 17s. 6d.) NATIONAL series of Maps, 15s. each, (world 17s. 6d.) Six Lesson Sheets and Tablets for 1s. 3d. The following is an excellent series for mounting on pasteboard, &c., and hanging up in a school house. Size of each sheet about two feet square. Price for the entire series in Sheets, 1s. 3d., as follows: 1. What every child ought to be, and what every child ought not to be, arranged in alphabetical order, with Scriptural references. 2. Plain instructions for children in day schools. 8. Plain Rules to be observed in case of accidents, &c. 4. The Ten Commandments, arranged on parallel tables. 5. The Lord's Prayer, in large type. 6. General Rules to be observed by Children in Common Schools. School Apparatus, Globes, Tablet Lessons, Object Lessons, Prints, Histori cal and Geological Charts, Lesson Sheets, Diagrams of the Steam Engine, Telegraph, Gas Works, Glass Works, Iron Furnace, Chemical Tables, &c., &c., in great variety. ALSO, Text-books and Materials for Drawing, Writing, Vocal Music, &c., as detailed in the descriptive Catalogue-a copy of which will be furnished upon application. The facilities offered by the Express Companies in Toronto render it an easy matter for persons at a distance to obtain supplies of School requisites from the Depository. In all cases cash must accompany the order sent. ADVERTISEMENTS inserted in the Journal of Education for one halfpenny per word, which may be remitted in postage stamps, or otherwise. TERMS: For a single copy of the Journal of Education, 5s. per annum ; back vols. neatly stitched, supplied on the same terms. All subscriptions to commence with the January number, and payment in advance must in all cases accompany the order. Single numbers, 74d. each. All communications to be addressed to Mr. J. GEORGE HODGINS, Education Office, Toronto. TORONTO: Printed by LOVELL & GIBSON, Corner of Yonge and Melinda Streets. CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. RELIGIO.SCIENTIA LIBERTA EDUCATION, TORONTO: JULY, 1854. I. An Act to Amend the Law relating to Grammar Schools in PAGE 109 II. The Benefits of Education dependent upon good Education.. 112 V. Glimpses of Education in the East.... 114 VI. EDITORIAL.-1. Official Circular to the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of each County Grammar School in Upper Canada. 2. Utility of Classical Studies ... 116 119 VII. The Greek and Latin Authors compared.. 8. 119 IX. EDUCATIONAL INTELLIGENCE.-1. Canada. 2. British and 121 X. LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. 122 124 XI. Advertisements..... AN ACT Canada. No. 7. Annual income to be apportioned annually by the Chief Superintendent of Schools. Senior Grammar School for each County or Union of Counties in TO AMEND THE LAW RELATING TO GRAMMAR SCHOOLS IN UPPER School Houses, and its or their appendages, grounds and enclosures, for procuring apparatus and text-books, for providing the salary of WHEREAS it is expedient to make further provision County Grammar School for which the said assess Sums so collected to whom to be paid over. Notice to be Apportionment to be payable III. And be it enacted, That the Chief Superintendent of Schools for Upper Canada shall, on or before the first day of May in each year, notify each County Council, through the Clerk of the Council, of the annual apportionment of Grammar School moneys to such County, and shall give notice of the same to the Inspector General; and such moneys shall be payable half yearly. to the Treasurer of each County entitled to receive it, one half on or before the first day of July, and the other half on or before the thirty-first day of December, in each year, in such manner as may be determined by the Governor: Provided always, that the sum or sums raised by local assessment or subscriptions for the support of Grammar Schools shall be payable each year on or before the fourteenth day of December. for the better establishment and maintenance of ment was made. Grammar Schools in the several Counties and Cities in Upper Canada: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada, constituted and assembled by virtue of and under the authority of an Act passed in the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and intituled, An Act to re-unite the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, and for the Government of Canada, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That all moneys arising from the sale of lands set apart or which may hereafter be set apart for the encouragement of Grammar Schools in Upper Canada, and which shall not have been specially granted to or vested in or for the benefit of any particular College, Grammar School, or other Seminary or place of Education, or otherwise departed with by the Crown, and all annual grants which have been or may hereafter be made by Parliament, or which may be or beocme otherwise available from any other sources In what securi- for that purpose, shall form a fund to be called The Upper Canada Grammar School Fund, and shall be invested in Government or other securities by the direction of the Governor in Council; and the annual income thereof, after the deduction therefrom of One Hundred Pounds yearly for a ties it shall be invested. IV. And be it enacted, That the sum or sums of money annually apportioned to each County, as provided in the first section of this Act, shall be expended in the payment of the salaries of Teachers, and for no other purpose. Proviso. Apportionment to be expended Teachers." solely in paying Certain subjects to be taught in each Grammar School. Proviso. Board of Trustees to be appointed for each Grammar School by the Municipal Council of the County hereafter to be formed. V. And be it enacted, That in each County Gram- places of the two persons who shall retire from Office annually, (but mar School provision shall be made for giving instruc- may be re-elected) shall be filled up by the County Municipality at tion, by a Teacher or Teachers of competent ability its first meeting to be held after the first day of January in each and good morals, in all the higher branches of a prac- year, although the year within which such two Trustees shall retire tical English and Commercial Education including the Elements of may not then have wholly expired. Natural Philosophy and Mechanics, and also in the Latin and Greek Languages and Mathematics so far as to prepare students for University College or any College affiliated to the University of Toronto, according to a programme of studies and general rules and regula tions to be prescribed by the Council of Public Instruction for Upper Canada, and approved by the Governor in Council: Provided always, that no Grammar School shall be entitled to receive any part of the Grammar School Fund, which shall not be conducted according to such programme, rules and regulations. VI. And be it enacted, That the Council of Public Instruction for Upper Canada, (of which the President of University College and the President or other Head of each of the Colleges in Upper Canada affiliated to the University of Toronto, shall be Members for the purposes of this Act,) shall prepare and prescribe a list of text-books, programme of studies, and general rules and regulations for the organization and government of the County Grammar Schools, to be approved by the Governor in Council. Council of Public Instruction to select Books and prepare a programme of studies. Duties of the Chief Superintendent with regard to Grammar Schools. VII. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Chief Superintendent of Schools to make annually to the Governor on or before the first day of July, a report of the actual state of the Grammar Schools in Upper Canada, shewing the amount of moneys expended in connection with each and from what sources derived, with such suggestions for their improvement as he shall deem useful and expedient; to see that the County Grammar School Fund apportioned by him, is, in all cases, applied to the purposes hereinbefore prescribed, and that each County Grammar School is conducted according to the rules and regulations provided according to law; and to prepare suitable forms, and to give such instructions as he shall judge necessary and proper for making all reports and conducting all proceedings under this Act, and to cause the same with a sufficient number of copies of this Act and such general rules and regulations as shall be approved of as aforesaid for the better organization and government of Grammar Schools, to be printed in a convenient form and transmitted to the parties required to execute the provisions of this Act. Present Trustees to remain in office until others are appointed and organized. VIII. And be it enacted, That the Trustees of the several Grammar Schools in Upper Canada appointed before this Act shall come into force, shall continue and be ex officio Trustees of the respective Schools for which they shall have been appointed, and shall continue to discharge their duties as such until the appointment and organization of new Boards of Trustees for their respective Schools as herein provided. Present Boards with three to be IX. And be it enacted, That the several Grammar School Trustees for each County and Union of Counties in Upper Canada, shall meet together on the first Wednesday in January next after the passing of this Act, and select from amongst themselves three Trustees, (one of whom shall retire annually from the said Board, on the thirty-first day of January in each year,) for each of the Grammar Schools within such County or Union of Counties, who, with three other Trustees for each such School, to be chosen as hereinafter provided by the Municipal Council of the County or Union of Counties, shall compose the Board of Trustees (consisting of six members, Quorum. three of whom shall constitute a quorum) for each such Grammar School, and the order in which the persons so selected by the said Trustees shall retire from the said Board shall be decided by lot: And the several County Municipalities in Upper Canada, at their first sittings to be held after the said first day of January next, shall select and appoint three fit and proper persons, one of whom shall also retire annually from the said Board on the thirty-first County Council. day of January in each year, to be Trustees for each of the Grammar Schools within their Counties or Union of Counties, and shall also decide the order in which the said persons so chosen, and all persons to be chosen by them as Trustees, shall retire from the said Board: And the vacancy occasioned by the retirement of the said two Trustees annually, as also Vacancies how to be filled up. any occasional vacancy in the said Board, shall be filled up by such County Municipality, provided that the person appointed to fill such occasional vacancy shall hold office only for the unexpired part of the term for which the person whose place shall have become vacant was appointed to serve, and the Retirement of Appointment of three Trustees by the X. And be it enacted, That it may and shall be lawful for the Municipal Council of each County or Union of Counties hereafter to be formed or set apart in Upper Canada, to appoint not less than six or more than eight fit and proper persons (three of whom shall be a quorum for the transaction of business) as a Board of Trustees for each Grammar School in such County or Union of Counties: Provided always, that two of the persons thus appointed (to be determined by such Council) shall retire from office annually on the thirty-first day of January in each year, (but may be re-appointed) and their places, as also any occasional vacancy, shall be filled up by such Councils: Proviso. Provided also, that the person appointed to fill such vacancy shall hold office only for the unexpired part of the term for which the person whose place shall have become vacant, was appointed to serve Provided likewise that such Municipal Councils shall appoint such Trustees at their first or other meeting after the Municipal Elections in each year, although the time may not then have expired for the retiring of the two Trustees who are to go out annually, and ail Trustees under this Act shall hold their offices until their successors shall be appointed as herein provided. Proviso. Taking charge appointing of Schools: Teachers, &c. building, &c. Taking care of Secondly. To take the charge of the County Grammar School for which they are appointed Trustees, and the buildings and lands appertaining to it; to remove if they see fit and in case of vacancies to appoint the Master or other Teacher or Teachers in such School, to fix their salaries and prescribe their duties; to appoint such other officers or servants in such School as they may judge expedient, and fix their remuneration; to do whatever may be expedient with regard to erecting, repairing, warming, furnishing or keeping in order the building or buildings of such School and its appendages, lands and enclosures, and to apply (if necessary) for the requisite sum or sums to be raised by Municipal authority for such purpose or purposes: Provided always, that no person (except a Graduate of some University or University College,) shall hereafter be appointed Master of a Grammar School unless he shall have previously obtained a Certificate of qualification from a Committee of Examiners (one of whom shall be the Head Master of the Normal School,) apppointed by the Council of Public Instruction. Applying to the Municipality for funds. Proviso: Masters to be exam. ined, unless Graduates. Bills to be levied. Thirdly. To settle the amount to be paid by parents Causing Rate and guardians for each pupil attending such School, and to fix the time or times of payment, and to apply the moneys received therefor as they shall judge expedient towards making up the salaries of Teachers, providing the proper apparatus, maps, text-books and registers, and for any other necessary expenses of such School; and they shall have authority to sue for and recover such amounts, and when collected the same shall be paid over to the Treasurer of the said Board of Trustees. in the elementary English branches, by a duly qualified English Teacher or Teachers; And provided also, that the Schools thus united shall be under the management of Schools so united to be under management of Joint Board. the Joint Board of Grammar and Common School Trustees, who shall have the powers of the Trustees of both the Common and Grammar Schools, but when the Trustees of the Comon School shall exceed six in number, then they shall reduce their number to six in the Joint Board. Books, Examinations, &c. Fifthly. To see that the pupils of such Grammar School are supplied with proper text-books; that public half-yearly examinations of the pupils are held, and due notice given of them; and that such School is conducted in accordance with the regulations which shall be provided according to law. Giving orders for money on the County Treasurer. Sixthly. To give the necessary orders upon the County Treasurer for the amount of public money to which such School is entitled, and upon their own Treasurer for any moneys in his hands for the payment of the salaries of the officers of such School and of any necessary expenses; to prepare and transmit, before the fifteenth day of January, to the Chief Superintendent of Schools, an annual report, which shall contain a full and accurate account of all matters appertaining to to such School, in accordance with a form of report which shall be provided according to law. Reporting yearly to Chief Superintendent. Which shall be the Senior Grammar School of any County. XIII. And be it enacted, That the Grammar School of the County or Union of Counties situate at the County Town of every County or Union of Counties in Upper Canada, shall be the Senior County Grammar School of such County or Union of Counties, and if the Courts of Assize and Nisi Prius for any of such Counties or Union of Counties are usually held in a City, such City for the purposes of this ection shall be considered a County Town. County Municipalities may establish additional Grammar Schools in certain cases, and on certain conditions. XIV. And be it enacted, That from and after the time when this Act shall come into force, the several County Municipalities shall have power and authority to establish additional Grammar Schools within their limits, and appoint Trustees therefor according to the tenth Section of this Act, but no new Grammar School shall be established until the state of the Grammar School Fund shall permit the application of a sum equal at the least to Fifty Pounds annually to such new School, after paying to each Senior County Grammar School the sum of One Hundred Pounds annually, and to all other Grammar Schools within such County, an amount which on the average would equal at least the annual sum of Fifty Pounds to each of such Schools; Provided always, that the sum or sums of money apportioned out of the Grammar School Fund to each County, shall be distributed amongst the several Grammar Schools of such County within the restrictions imposed by this Act under such rules and regulations as may from time to time be made by the Council of Public Instruction for Upper Canada and approved by the Governor in Council. Proviso: as to apportionment of public moneys for Grammar Schools. Where Grammar Schools now existing shall be kept. Change of site. XV. And be it enacted, That the Grammar Schools at present established, or which may be established at the time this Act comes into force, shall be continued at the places where they are respectively held; but the Board of Trustees of each of the said Schools may change the place of holding such School by a resolution to be passed for that purpose and approved by the Governor in Council But the place of holding any Grammar lished after this School to be established after this act comes into force, may be changed by the County Council of the County Grammar Schools estabAct is in force. Recital. within which it is established. XVI. And whereas it is desirable at Seminaries and places of Education to direct attention to natural phenomena, and to encourage habits of observation; And whereas a better knowledge of the climate and meteorology of Canada will be serviceable to agricultural and other pursuits, and be of value to scientific enquirers: Be it therefore enacted, That it shall be part of the duty of the Master of every Senior County Grammar School, to make the requisite observations for keeping and to keep a Meteorological Journal, embracing such observations and kept according to such form as shall Masters of Senior Grammar Schools to keep Meteorological Journals. 111 And it shall be the duty of the Chief Superintendent of Schools to procure these Instruments at the request and expense of the Municipal Council of any County, and to furnish the Master of the Senior County Grammar School with a Book for registering observations, and with forms for abstracts thereof, to be transmitted to the Chief Superintendent by such Master, who shall certify that the observations required have been made with due care and regularity. 7 W. 4, c. 106. 4 & 5. V. o. 19. XVII. And be it enacted, That the Act of the Parlia- Acts of U. C. 47 G 3, c. 6. ment of Upper Canada, passed in the forty seventh year of the Reign of King George the Third, and intituled, An Act to establish Public Schools in each and every District of this Province, and the Act of the said Parliament, passed in the forty-eighth year of the same Reign, and intituled, An Act to amend an 48 G. 3, c. 16. Act passed in the forty-seventh year of His Majesty's Reign, intituled, An Act to establish Public Schools in each and every District of this Province,' and the Act of the said Parliament, passed in the second Session held in the fifty-ninth year of the same Reign, and intituled, An Act to repeal part of and to 59 G. S, c. 4. amend the Laws now in force for establishing Public Schools in the several Districts of this Province, and to extend the provisions of the same, and the Act of the said Parliament, passed in the seventh year of the Reign of King William the Fourth, and intituled, An Act to repeal part of an Act passed in the fifty-ninth year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled, An Act to repeal part of and to amend the Laws now in force for establishing Public Schools in the several Districts of the Province, and to establish the Public School for the London District, in the Town of London, and the Act of the Parliament of this Province, passed in the Session held in the fourth and fifth years of Her Majesty's Reign, and intituled, And of Canada, An Act to make temporary provision for the appropriation of the Funds derived from the Sale of School Lands in that part of the Province formerly Upper Canada, and for other purposes, and the Act of the Parliament of this Province, passed in the ninth year of Her Majesty's Reign, and intituled, An Act to 9 V. c. 19. amend the Act therein mentioned, relating to the appropriation of moneys derived from the Sale of School Lands in Upper Canada, and the Act of the Parliament of this Province, passed in the Session held in the thirteenth and fourteenth years of Her Majesty's Reign and intituled, An Act to provide for the payment of a sum of money therein mentioned, for the use and support of three additional Grammar Schools in the County of York, for the year one thousand eight hundred and fortynine, and the Act of the Parliament of this Province, passed in the Reign, and intituled, An Act to repeal the provision 14 & 18 V. c. 105, Session held in the fourteenth and fifteenth years of Her Majesty's limiting the distance between the County Town and and other laws any additional Grammar School in the same County, inconsistent relating to the Grammar Schools or Grammar School in Upper Canada, and all other laws and statutes moneys in Upper Canada, so far as they are contrary to the provisions of this Act, shall be and the same are hereby repealed from and after the day this Act shall come into force; Provided Proviso. always, that all appointments of Trustees, Masters or Teachers of Grammar Schools shall continue in force, as if made under the authority of this Act, until revoked or changed according to the provisions of the same. 18 & 14 V. c. 91. with this Act, repealed. XVIII. And be it enacted, That this Act shall have Commmenceforce and effect upon, from and after the first day of ment of Act. January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, and not before. |